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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To indulge in an extravagant expense or luxury.
  2. v. To be showy or ostentatious.
  3. v. To spend extravagantly or wastefully.
  4. n. An extravagant display.
  5. n. An expensive indulgence; a spree.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A blustering, noisy, or ostentatious demonstration, display, or effort.
  2. To make an ostentatious demonstration or display.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To gush, to flow or move in a rush.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Slang, U.S. A blustering demonstration, or great effort; a great display.
  2. v. Slang, U.S. To make a great display in any way, especially in oratory.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. indulge oneself
  2. v. be showy or ostentatious
  3. n. any act of immoderate indulgence
  4. n. an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.)

Etymologies

  1. Possibly from a blend of splash and surge. (Wiktionary)
  2. Perhaps blend of splash and surge. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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